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1.1. LOW FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF

THE CS AND CE AMPLIFIERS
1.1.1. Common Source (CS) amplifiers
EXERCISE 2 1
Consider the circuit in the following figure,
given that R1 = 500 K, R2 = 1.4 M, RS = 33
K, RD = 82 K, R3 = 470 K, C1  , gm
= 2 mA/V.
a/ Draw its small-signal equivalent circuit in
the low frequency domain.
b/ Determine the voltage gain of this circuit at
low frequency.
c/ Determine the values of C2 and C3 such that
the low cut-off frequency of this circuit is fL =
50 Hz.

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1.1. LOW FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF

THE CS AND CE AMPLIFIERS
1.1.1. Common Source (CS) amplifiers
EXERCISE 3 1
The common-source amplifier in the figure
beside has VBE(ON) = 0.7 V, C3  , RI = 5
k, R1 = 430 k, R2 = 560 k, RS = 13
k, RD = 43 k, R3 = 240 k, IDQ = 0.2
mA, VDSQ = 5 V, VGS – Vtn = 0.7 V.
a/ What is the value of VDD?
b/ Draw the low-frequency equivalent
circuits for this amplifier.
c/ Determine the transfer function Av(s) =
vo/vi at low frequency.
d/ Find the lower-cutoff frequency (in Hz)
of this amplifier using the short-circuit
time-constant method.

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